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This is indeed an interesting question. If we take it at face value, we'd have to answer that there is no way. Let me ask a similar question about a more household item, How could we see the top and bottom of a dinner plate all of the time? The answer is of course that one cannot. The best one can do is see its top or its bottom. We could look at the dinner plate edge on, but I'm not sure if that really is what your granddaughter has in mind. Is looking at a dinner plate edge on the way to see both the top and bottom?
Moreover, looking at Saturn's rings edge on is not always possible. Saturn is tilted on its axis, just like the Earth is. Only rarely is it possible to see Saturn's rings edge on from Earth. Examples of this include some Hubble images and the most recent instance of Saturn's rings being edge on to the Earth.
If I am allowed to use a "trick" answer, I'd suggest that one way to see more of Saturn's rings would be to have a spacecraft around Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft will not help us see both sides of Saturn's rings all of the time, but it will help us see much more of them.
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